Brave New World Caste Quiz

Dauntless New World Guild and Class

Society and Class

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Like Greek life on college campuses around the country, the society in Dauntless New World is split into five castes: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, with a few minor distinctions in between. Because of the applied science wielded by the World Country's leaders, degree is pre-determined and humans are grown in a manner appropriate to their status; the lower the degree, the dumber and uglier the individual is created to be. Equally adults, the upper two castes collaborate socially with each other but never with the bottom groups—that would totally be social suicide. Class is however another machinery for stability and command on the part of the government. It's likewise a big part of the reason that personal identity goes by the wayside in this novel—Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are simply faceless drones in color-coded outfits who exist to serve the more intelligent Alphas and Betas.

Questions About Lodge and Class

Huxley pretty much exclusively focuses on characters of Alpha or Beta condition. Why do we get so little insight into the lives of the lower castes?
Is Mustapha right in his insistence that a club of all Alphas would fail? What did you think of that "Cyprus experiment" discussed in Chapter 16?
Do Alphas seem to be the least satisfied of all the citizens in the Earth Country? If Epsilons really are happy with their lives, then what's wrong (morally) with making them that way?

Chew on This

The caste organization is the greatest tool the Earth State has to subdue its citizens.

Soma is more vital to the upper castes than it is to the lower ones.

Soma is more vital to the lower castes than it is to the upper ones.

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